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Item Film and mass society in Weimar Germany : Berlin: die Sinfonie der Grossstadt and Metropolis(1997) Jones, Catherine Colquitt; Jelavich, Peter; Berman, Nina (Nina Auguste)Item Magical mechanics : the player piano in the age of digital reproduction(2016-05) Wente, Allison Rebecca; Buhler, James, 1964-; Almén, Byron; Carson, Charles D.; Miller, Karl; Pearsall, Edward; Drott, EricBy the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices. While numerous scholars have examined this aesthetic in art and literature, musical compositions representing industrialized labor practices and the role of the machine in music remain largely unexplored. Moreover, in recounting the history of machines in musical recording and reproduction, scholars often tend to emphasize the phonograph, rather than player piano, despite the latter’s prominence within the newly-established musical marketplace. Although the player piano failed to maintain a stronghold in the recorded music marketplace after 1930, the widespread acceptance of recording technologies as media for storing and enjoying music indicates a much more fundamental societal shift. This dissertation is an exploration into that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player piano in early twentieth-century society. As consumers accepted mechanical replacements for what previously required an active human laborer, ghostly, mechanical performers labored tirelessly in parlors, businesses, and even concert halls. Through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century examples of mechanical sounds in music, and of music imitating or scoring machines, along with a cultural historical overview of the player piano and its environment, Chapter 1 explores the background information necessary for an analysis of mechanical music. Chapter 2 organizes mechanical music into three categories: (1) music written to sound like or imitate the machine; (2) music written to record and reproduce the skills of virtuoso performers; and (3) music written specifically for machines. This chapter addresses a diverse variety of audiences and spaces to make clear the widespread influence of the machine on musical culture. Chapter 3 includes a sonic analysis of two 1919 recordings Rachmaninoff made of his C# Minor Prelude, one roll one record, framed within a broader theory of memory based on Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory (1896). Chapter 4 steps away from the notes on the page and instead includes several examples of player piano advertisements from 1900-1930, organized into categories based on themes like labor, gender, and education. Finally, chapter 5 touches on the ways in which machine music converges with or diverges from theories of absolute music.Item Metropolis approximation to assess dependence between fixed and random effects in a count model for overdispersed data(2016-05) Maresca, Philip Joseph; Müller, 1963 August 9-, Peter; Lin, Tse-minThis analysis will provide inference on extra-Poisson variation in annual tornado counts from 12 US states, under the assumption that the counts arise from a Poisson distribution. Parameterizing the rate of occurrence as a function of time varying covariates including Sea Surface Temperatures yields a fixed effects Poisson model. We use such a model as a vehicle to test counts for equal mean and variance-a condition called equidispersion. The rejection of equidispersion prompts the introduction of state-specific random variability in the Poisson regression model to get a negative binomial model. We find that in the presence of the random effect, Sea Surface Temperatures becomes insignificant while Year remains significant. Assessing the relation between Year and the state-specific random effects proceeds by estimating the joint posterior full conditional of the regression parameters for different levels of the parameter representing state heterogeneity.